The service is free and can be accessed by 'apps' on phones, the internet and even via sms messages on phones also. It has become very popular since it was created in 2006.
On the main page of the website the 'tweets' (posts) are listed. At the top of the page it shows the "top tweets" these are 'tweets' that have been posted within the last few hours. This is a good point of the website as it then allows the user to quickly see the most important tweets without actually logging in, this is said to be a good feature of the website. The front page also has 2 other good gadgets that are great points of the website.
These include:
a box with celebrities, businesses and people you may know and want to add. This saves time searching for people and can save time as you can easily and quickly click on the picture of the person and choose to follow them within seconds.
a moving reel with 'trending topics' flowing that can be clicked on. This can be a good gadget as it shows you the most popular topics that have been mentioned in the 'tweets' (posts). E.g. one tweet is asking about when the programme waterloo road is on, and other users have commented and answered. This may be a question you wanted to know, so by clicking and searching you may find the answer without having to tweet and ask, saving yourself time.
Below shows photos of the home/main page showing the top tweets, 'trending topics' reel and the box showing the celebrities, businesses and friends that you may know and want to choose to follow, and the other showing the realtime results of the trending topics of 'Waterloo Road'.
Twitter has many good features compared to Blogger. There are many differences between both the websites.
Twitter only allows you to enter up to 140 characters as a tweet. This may be a concern as many people may want to write something in more depth, which is difficult when there is a maximum amount of characters and may have to shorten the wording which may not be clear to read and interpret. The print screen picture below shows that i have gone over the number of characters allowed by 17 characters, this would mean i would have to shorten the 'tweet' so that it has 140 characters or less. This isnt a problem on blogger.com as you have no maximum amount of characters that can be used.
Below are two photos one to show britney spears' twitter profile. The other is of Lily Allen's twitter profile with the account verified stamp shown.
Twitter can also be accessed via mobiles. This is great for convinience as you can immediatly update a 'tweet' whilst out and about. Although you may be able to access the internet on your phone and go to the blogger website, many phones now actually have the twitter 'apps' that when clicked on immediatly show the 'sign in' screen rather than having to take time to upload the internet, type in the url and wait for the website to load. The twitter 'app' is on most phones with internet now including the blackberry and the iphone. The 'app' was introduced due to the amount of people using the website and demand to use it often throughout the day. The 'app' has been made by the company as a much easier way to quickly access the site in a shorter amount of time, which pleases its users. Blogger does not currently have an 'app' for their website, so this is a great feature of Twitter being an advantage over Blogger. By Blogger not having an 'app' is not nesersarly a bad thing, as when the 'app' for example Twitter's, is downloaded onto the phone as soon as somebody comments or writes something to you, your phone will not stop buzzing with messages telling you so! which can be extremly annoying! This also leads onto another point that Twitter can be addictive, when you get the buzzing of messages from the 'app' you find yourself getting annoyed with it so you go onto it to sort it out and you find yourself on there for hours. When the buzzing starts its hard to ignore it, just like a child craving attention.
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| Twitter App on an Iphone. |
Twitter has many companies on the site signed up. If you mention a product from the company you may well find that the company will 'follow' you, this can become annoying when you are just mentioning something for example you have just bought and want to 'tweet' about. On Blogger.com this may happen, but very rarely. On Twitter it is a common occurance.
Another discussion between Blogger and Twitter is that many people claim twitter is hard to follow conversations, where as blogger is quite simple as its just comments which can be seen and replied to. Commenting on blogs can be very easily tracked, whereas Twitter may have many comments and conversations that are hard to track and read where you may find yourself having to scroll down the page to find a reply. This can be frustraiting and time consuming, so in this respect, Blogger would be at an advantage!
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
http://www.penaltyfareappeal.co.uk/wordpress/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/twitter1.jpg
